William Arthur “Bill” Booth was a magnet who drew people to him. As the executive director of the University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association, he was instrumental in creating the U.Va. Medical School Foundation. Mr. Booth was “widely recognized and praised for his ability to successfully cultivate the good will of the graduates and friends of the medical school, resulting in contributions, which significantly enhanced the foundation’s endowment,“ said his stepson, Jesse B. Wilson III of Purcellville.

A Roanoke racist known to occasionally wear a Nazi-style uniform faces federal charges of using the Internet to threaten five people, including a prominent black newspaper columnist and a Delaware professor. In a federal grand jury indictment, William A. White, 31, who calls himself the commander of the Roanoke-based American National Socialist Workers Party, also is accused of sending threatening letters marked with swastikas to several black Virginia Beach residents who were involved in a dispute with their landlord.